5. Or go to a school with more women in science professions in the local community.

A US study published in Social Science Quarterly found that in many schools, roughly equal numbers of boys and girls take physics classes.

The lead researcher on the study, Dr Catherine Riegel-Crumb, told NPR:

What we found is that in communities that had a higher percentage of women in the labour force who are working in science, technology, engineering, and math, that in those schools, girls were as likely as boys to take physics, or even more likely.